Whoa! Whoa! dhw take notice!!! (The limitations of science)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 01:51 (4524 days ago) @ David Turell

Okay... this is a prime example why I get all tied up like I did in the Natural Selection thread...

To a computer scientist... the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF ANY ALGORITHM IS THE STEP THAT DECIDES THE NEXT STEP... I've said before that the "filter" is the most important part of the process.

The evolution of life is NOT a computer algorithm. That is where the trouble has been. NS does filtering, but it can only choose from what it is given. It is not in a feedback loop. You are right. Two differing ways of looking at it.

If evolution can't be modeled by computers why do I have 2 textbooks that xplain how to do exactly that? And if evolution isn't iterative, then why do we have generations? the only way your words are true is if generation 2 doesn't inherit from generation 1. Ball's in your court, David.

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